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On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 04:57:52PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote |
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> Any advice about slick ways of getting fully updated but dumping kde |
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> on the way. |
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*IMPORTANT* KDE is obscene about dependancies. E.g. when a |
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lightweight pdf-reader was phased out, I looked at various options |
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including okular. It's an "itty-bitty-little-applet"... that seems to |
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pull in 90% of KDE as dependancies. If you want to get rid of KDE, you |
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must be prepared to dump every last little KDE app/applet. It's an |
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all-or-nothing situation. Sorry. |
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1) "eselect profile list" and switch to a basic non-KDE profile of your |
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choice. |
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2) "emerge gentoolkit" if not already present. |
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3) "cat /var/lib/portage/world" and see what KDE stuff you have. |
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4) Unmerge (i.e. "emerge --unmerge) obvious KDE-related stuff that you |
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find in world. |
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5) "emerge --depclean" (May not help if you've done "emerge --sync" and |
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not fully updated). |
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The next 3 steps are going to be repeated several times |
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6) "emerge -pv --changed-use --deep --update @world" |
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7) You'll probably see portage try to pull KDE back in. For each lib |
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"fu-bar/foobar" that portage tries to pull in do "equery d fu-bar/foobar" |
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and manually unmerge whatever it finds. (Note: gentoolkit provides the |
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equery tool). |
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8) GOTO 6 (until portage stops trying to pull in KDE stuff). |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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